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Pekin Area Chamber of Commerce Upcoming Events

Feb 26, 2025 12:12PM

Pekin Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a Candidate Forum for individuals running for Pekin City Council. This event provides an opportunity for the public to hear directly from the candidates about their platforms, priorities, and vision for the city.

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Save Your Family Memories at the Pekin Public Library

Feb 26, 2025 12:10PM

Are you worried about the degradation of your old family videos that were recorded back in the Eighties and Nineties on a VHS camcorder? Do you have a decades-old collection of 8mm short films that you haven’t been able to view in a long time?

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St. Paul United Church of Christ Illuminated Threads: The Ties That Bind During Lent

Feb 26, 2025 12:01PM

St. Paul United Church of Christ, 101 N. 8th Street in Pekin, will be focusing on Threads: The Ties That Bind this Lent. Starting Sunday, March 9 through Easter Sunday, April 20, each week will journey through Scripture reflecting on a tradition of quilting, which has

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A Word from Mayor Mary – A Down Payment on Pekin’s Future

Feb 26, 2025 12:00PM ● By Mayor Mary

The plan for Pekin’s ring road connecting to I-474 is going on three generations. With the support of U.S. Representative Darin LaHood, we aim to turn that plan into roads and opportunity.

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All Aboard For Good Friends and Great Food at Maquet’s Rail House

Feb 26, 2025 11:58AM ● By Scott Fishel

When Dustin Maquet told his friends he wanted to open a craft beer pub in Pekin, “they thought I was nuts.” After all, he already had a successful career at Caterpillar.

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February 2025 Issue

Jan 30, 2025 02:20PM

Read the February, 2025 edition of The Pekin Hometown Voice Newspaper.

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Tazewell County Clerk & Recorder of Deeds Office Receives Awards for “Veterans Honor Rewards Program Enrollment” and “Property Fraud Alert Enrollment”

Jan 28, 2025 12:25PM

During a reception last month, hosted by Fidlar Technologies of Davenport, Iowa, the Tazewell County Clerk & Recorder of Deeds Office received awards for "Veterans Honor Rewards Program Enrollment" and "Property Fraud Alert Enrollment."

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In Search of History…

Jan 28, 2025 12:23PM

The next meeting of the Tazewell County Genealogical and Historical Society will be Tuesday, February 11th at 7pm. Lin Strong will present “Online Resources for European Research.”

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Three Who Answered the Call: The Pekin-area Ministers Who Marched for Civil Rights in Selma

Jan 28, 2025 12:21PM ● By Jared L. Olar Local History Program Coordinator

The decade of the Sixties was a time of momentous changes in the United States, and the Civil Rights Movement was responsible for many of those changes.

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Annie’s Project Prepares Women to be Decision Makers in Their Agricultural Operations

Jan 28, 2025 12:10PM

For the past several years there has been a rapidly growing population of women producers and an increasing role they are playing in agricultural operations. Women are taking on the role of management and more opportunities are being shifted to this new wave of farmers across the country.

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